Advertisement

Advertisement

sure cure



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

A remedy that won't fail, as in Hard work is a sure cure for brooding . Originating in the late 1800s as an advertising slogan ( Dr. Keck's Sure Cure for Catarrh ; first recorded in 1881), this rhyming phrase was soon extended to other matters.

Advertisement

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


sure as shootingsure-enough